10 quarters of a grain of caffeine and two grains of tannin; in Tibet they take butter made from goats' milk in their tea, and in some parts of China the boiled leaves are made into patties, with salt, garlic, and dried fish; next to water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world, and Americans drink enough every year to overflow the Central Park reservoir, or to float the N ormandie, if she can be floated. Imported W E'VE heard from a naval officer who got promoted recently, which necessitated a reshuffling of his insignia. \Vhen his stars were removed, he found, on the back of each, a label reading " M d . J " H a e In apan. e sent one to us, for evidence. You can come and look at it, but we wouldn't part with it for an ything. Newcomers W E made a neighborly call on the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, which has just moved into town in order to leave more floor space in Washington for the war effort. The Division has taken six floors at 1560 Broadway, near Forty-sixth .> Au . N @$....... ..:; ^- .... . ^ ., .... ... ,. Ii NA ÿ}.......;.;..-..... ."...;:::: .. . rw :_:-:?:.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::_:?:-- : ...:;::::K:::::;:;:"::.: -.- -. .::.:::::.:::;::::::: ::: :::;::::::=:::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::.___/:--.-:., :.:.:.:...:-;.:-:.;.;.:.:.:-;-::; ::::::::::::::::-:-::-::: ::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::;::;-. ..::.:..::::: :: :.:::::::::::":: ..:..:. ::::::::; ;-:. '7' . ...:.:."::"::::;:::;:::::::::;::::: ....::.:::::::::.:;...:..:::: ........l \ i "\. Street. We had a talk with the Divi- sion's Mr. Mullady, who has the title of Acting Director of the Information Branch. Mr. Mullady, an old City News boy who used to cover City Hall, was not displeased at getting back to New York, except that he had just bought a nice little country place in Vir- ginia and had intended to settle down there with his bride, some chickens, and a bull pup. That will have to wait. Of the two hundred-odd Wage and Hour folk thus transplanted, few had ever so much as visited New York before, Mr. Mullady told us. He thinks he's the only native N ew Yorker among the depart- ment heads and figures that probably every state in the Union is represented in the personnel. Some of the staff who just couldn't face the prospect of leav- ing Washington managed to get trans- ferred to other bureaus, their places be- ing filled by more ad ven turous souls. Even a Republican would have to admit that the move was accomplished with efficiency and dispatch. It was an- nounced on December 20th that the Division would leave Washington. Pittsburgh was the first choice for the new location, but on January 30th word was given that New York had been definitely chosen. Outriders immediate- ly were sent up here to compile a list .... 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'. . . / . .,_ . :} . : : . . , . . , , _ ,: _ . _ ?Jf." '. - 0.. >::_ W.W . .i\t ".: f "t W ::"4. -_: {af. .. MARCH 7, 194-2. of desirable hotels, furnished rooms, and apartments for temporary residence, and the members of the staff made their selections sight unseen. At 1 P.M. Sat- urday, February 14th, work was sus- pended in Washington, and it was re- sumed in New York at 9 A.M. the following Tuesday. Sixty-one trailer trucks were required for the office furni- ture and equipment. Mr. Mullady, re- calling that it once took five days to move from one set of offices to another in Washington, couldn't say enough for the movers. The personnel and its bag- gage came up mostly over the weekend by train, bus, and automobile. It is to the credit of New York that the Wage and Hour Division got a royal welcome. On their first day at work, they were addressed by Mayor LaGuardia and George A. Sloan, the New York City Commissioner of Com- merce. There was also a basketful of passes to theatres, movies, the opera, the Empire State observatory, and the dining rooms of many of the midtown hotels, for a meal on the house. E very- body had some sort of treat his first evening in the city. One secretary re- ported with satisfaction that while she was dining at the Martinique, she was approached by a foreign-looking man who addressed her as "Madame" and in- sisted on buying her a drink. We heard of one confused young Wage and Hour lady who, having been forewarned that New Y or k taxi-drivers expected tips, tipped the conductor of a Broadway streetcar. "He kept it, too," Mr. Mul- lady told us indignantly. We drew out a couple of girls working at nearby desks. Miss '/Vhelan, a native of Baltimore, commented on the high buildings. Miss Euwar, of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, said it was roomier here. That shows what Washington has turned into, when New York seems roomy. Exclusive AN eager lady, an amateur social n. worker, recently visited the editor of the woman's page of a local news- paper with a request that something nice be written about a girls' reformatory she was somehow tied up with. "It ought to be a very good story," she said. "You see, we are privately endowed, and we get the cream of the delInquents." Free Speec! O NE afternoon last week we went a few blocks out of our way to look in on Union Square, wondering what effect a state of war has had